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Ako/Akayo At Bent Gallery
On View July 20th - August 15th, 2007
Opening Reception Friday July 20th, 2007 from 7 p.m - 11 p.m.

This July 2007 Bent Gallery will present a exhibit of new paintings, drawings and installations by San Francisco-based artist AKO/Akayo.This exhibition will include a large number of paintings on wood panel, ranging in sizes,installations,zines, as well as mixed media works on paper. The exhibition will be on view from July 20th-august 15th with an opening reception held on Friday, July 20th from 7pm to 11pm.

Bent Gallery
1101 B Mission Street
S.Pasadena, Ca
Ph:626-403-6453

ABOUT THE ARTIST

“AKO” is a San Francisco Bay Area artist who has been decorating city walls for over a decade. His art can be found lurking in the streets or in galleries across the US and Europe. He enjoys making books, stickers, taking photos and moving about in the city’s shadows. His first book is scheduled to be released in late 2007 . He has done graphic design And His Client List Includes Everything From Zines To Osiris Shoes And His works have been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers .

Sex is pretty straight forward. And yet we are bombarded with fanciful images of what it is and what it should be. Whether it is porno flicks or the cover of a tabloid exploiting the sexual trivializations of Paris Hilton, the image of sex is so fucked up. We’re caught up in the distortion of sex at the benefit of commerce. We either paid to see it or someone else did.

It never turns out to be the way penthouse presents it: A big breasted 110 lb blonde bombshell sucking an elephant size load through the python of a muscle man. The image of sex is so distorted, we become so disconnected from the sexual act and more engrossed with the idea of it. “People forget the brain is the biggest erogenous zone”, as said by Jackie Treehorn in the “Big Lebowski”. Without getting all therapeutic about it, we are grossly enchanted with the phantasms of sex because we like it.

Check out Marcelino Medina at the Old Towne Pub.

66. N. Fiar Oaks Ave., Pasadena CA 91103

June 7, 2007 | 9:00 | $5 admission

Rock on…

rendition | an exhibition of los angeles visual culture
curated by eyeone | seeking heaven crew

RENDITION

featuring work by
asylm | cab | cache | jorger | kozem | klee | luna
mear | panic | passenger | patrick martinez
skypage | vyal | yem

audio by kool dj sheak one

reception
saturday june 9, 2007 | 7-10 pm

scion installation l.a.
3521 helms ave (at national) | culver city, ca 90232

june 9 to june 30, 2007
gallery hours: wed-sat 11-6 | (310) 815-8840
complimentary valet parking

www.scion.com/space

We are back again at the upcoming Ghetto Gloss Market. Hot Dogs, Pabst, and art galore. Come check out our magazine as well as our fellow artists. See prints by Chuck Hodi, monster pouches by CJ, and clay books by Christine, and so much more. (Hollywood, CA)

June 3rd, 2007. Please visit www.ghettogloss.com for details and stay tuned for directions.

Hope to see you all there soon!

While working on our current issue, we came across this fantastic artist. Most of her work is photography, but reaches into painting as you can see above. Her work has an amazing range of colors and the content is extremely surreal. Have a look.

Wow. We’ve returned from APE, the Alternative Press Expo, in San Francisco. It was two fun filled days at the event, slinging magazines, meeting new people, and discovering new and awesome zines. It was productive and inspiring and exhausting. We’ll definitely be doing it again next year.

We appeared the first day of the show hoping to secure a table even though we were on the waiting list. A blond surfer dude pointed us to empty spot and we unloaded the goods. Unfortunately, the blond surfer dude was a dud, not a dude, as we found that the table we were at was in fact someone else’s. We worked it out the staff and the real fun began.

Over the course of the week, we did some awesome bonding with our staff, Diana and Preston, Tracy Gilbert, Alex Cerrilla, and Justin and Maye. We cleared the nights with binge drinking and sweet sweet lovemaking. We caught up with our loved ones and hung out with our dear friends.